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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part of A Dry Hypocrisy Series-forgotten true stories of power, privilege, and unequal enforcement in Prohibition-era Washington. The Nineteenth Amendment opened the door. Alice Mary Robertson entered carrying contradictions that would define her place in history.Elected to Congress in 1920, Robertson became only the second woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives, and the first elected after women secured the constitutional right to vote. She would also become the first woman to preside over a House session.Yet Robertson resisted much of the organized women's movement that made her election imaginable.She championed soldiers and veterans while opposing the veterans' bonus. She built a career serving Native communities while participating in institutions shaped by assimilation and federal paternalism. She distrusted dependency while relying upon patronage, appointments, and public institutions throughout her own remarkable life.Meanwhile, the same Capitol that celebrated her historic presence remained marked by another contradiction: lawmakers publicly defended Prohibition while an illegal liquor trade operated within their institutional world.The Petticoat Politician: Alice Mary Robertson, Congress, and the Politics of Contradiction, follows Robertson from missionary work and public service to Congress, electoral defeat, hospital employment, and an ending far removed from the national attention that once surrounded her.This is neither a simple celebration nor a modern indictment. It is the gripping story of a pioneering woman whose achievements and limitations existed side by side.She opened a door without embracing the movement behind it and became a symbol of progress who refused to fit comfortably within its meaning.Book Four of A Dry Hypocrisy Series.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part of A Dry Hypocrisy Series.forgotten true stories of power, privilege, and unequal enforcement in Prohibition-era Washington.Congress wrote America's dry laws. George Cassiday delivered their liquor.For nearly a decade, a quiet World War I veteran carried briefcases filled with illegal alcohol through the guarded corridors of the United States Capitol. His customers occupied some of the most powerful offices in Washington. The lawmakers who publicly defended Prohibition depended upon discretion, privilege, and a supplier who understood that silence was part of the service.Then came the green hat.After his 1925 arrest made him nationally recognizable, Cassiday moved his operation from the House side of the Capitol to the Senate. A raid on his home uncovered hundreds of quarts of premium liquor. His final arrest in 1930 ended the deliveries-but opened the door to something far more dangerous.In a sensational six-part newspaper exposé, Cassiday revealed how extensively congressional demand had sustained the illegal trade. He protected individual names while exposing the institution that had protected them.The Man in the Green Hat reconstructs the documented rise, survival, and collapse of one of Washington's most extraordinary Prohibition-era operations. It is the story of an unlikely historical witness who exposed the distance between the laws Congress enacted and the private conduct it concealed.Six articles. One green hat. A decade of hypocrisy brought into the light.Book One of A Dry Hypocrisy Series.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part of A Dry Hypocrisy Series.forgotten true stories of power, privilege, and unequal enforcement in Prohibition-era Washington. Who polices the lawmakers when privilege stands on the other side of the door During Prohibition, the United States Capitol was both a symbol of national law and the workplace of officials who quietly violated it. Through its entrances moved senators, representatives, employees, visitors and George Cassiday; the bootlegger whose familiar face and carefully managed deliveries became part of congressional routine.Guarding this contradictory world was the United States Capitol Police.The Precinct on the Hill: Policing Congress, Prohibition, and the Man in the Green Hat, examines the institution caught between public law and legislative privilege. Officers were expected to protect Congress, preserve order, recognize familiar faces, and respond to threats. But what happened when the protected institution became the setting of the violation Cassiday's 1925 arrest, his move from the House to the Senate side, the undercover operation that penetrated his network, and his final 1930 capture reveal a fragmented enforcement system in which familiarity could become camouflage and jurisdiction could become shelter.This is not a tale of a fictional police conspiracy. It is a true, documented, examination of institutional boundaries, divided authority, selective visibility, and the dangerous distance between guarding a government and holding it accountable.The officers remained at their posts. The doors remained guarded. Yet for years, the illegal trade moved through the corridors they protected.Book Three of A Dry Hypocrisy Series.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part of A Dry Hypocrisy Series.forgotten true stories of power, privilege, and unequal enforcement in Prohibition-era Washington. He helped turn Prohibition into a moral crusade. Then the crusade turned upon him.Bishop James Cannon Jr. was one of the most formidable religious political organizers of his generation. From church pulpits and temperance platforms, he presented alcohol as more than a social danger. It was a test of faith, citizenship, discipline, and national character.His influence reached far beyond the church.Cannon built alliances, mobilized voters, challenged political parties, and helped transform religious conviction into national power. But as Prohibition weakened, questions surrounding political money, personal conduct, and institutional accountability threatened the authority upon which his movement depended.Investigations followed. Church proceedings tested his standing. Federal prosecutors brought him to trial. Cannon was ultimately acquitted, but legal vindication could not fully restore the moral certainty that had once made him powerful.The Holy War: Bishop James Cannon Jr., Prohibition, and the Collapse of Moral Power, examines the rise of a crusader, the machinery behind his influence, and the devastating consequences that followed when public righteousness collided with suspicion and scandal.This is not a story of proven guilt. It is the more complicated story of collapsing credibility-and of a reform movement forced to confront whether its leaders could survive the standards they imposed upon everyone else.When morality becomes political power, who holds the moralists accountable Book Two of A Dry Hypocrisy Series.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twelve men were sentenced to die. The record would not stay buried. After the Elaine Massacre, twelve Black defendants entered death row carrying verdicts produced in a few hurried days. Their trials had the forms of law - a judge, juries, witnesses, and sentences - but the courthouse stood beneath the pressure of a white mob and a state determined to preserve its story. The Twelve Condemned follows the prisoners, their families, investigators Walter White and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the NAACP, and Arkansas lawyer Scipio Jones through years of appeals, danger, and exacting legal work. Their campaign reached the United States Supreme Court in Moore v. Dempsey and forced federal courts to look behind the paper record of a mob-dominated trial.Nicolas De Lacroix traces a constitutional victory that saved lives without repairing all that Elaine destroyed - revealing how testimony, organization, and relentless advocacy kept twelve men alive long enough for the law to change.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One child's death exposed a city already at war with itself. On July 27, 1919, Black teenager Eugene Williams drowned after stones were thrown toward a raft near the unofficial color line at a Lake Michigan beach. When police refused to arrest the man accused, grief became fury. The City at War follows Chicago through the violence that came next: street clashes, attacks by white athletic clubs, block-by-block defense, unequal policing, food shortages, fires, and the arrival of the Illinois National Guard. Beneath the fighting lay older conflicts over housing, labor, migration, political machines, and the boundaries enforced around the Black Belt. Centering families, veterans, nurses, organizers, and survivors, Nicolas De Lacroix shows how a city's geography became a weapon. This narrative history restores the people behind the casualty totals and explains why the boundary remained after the streets grew quiet. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In July 1919, the streets surrounding the White House became contested ground. White servicemen and civilians moved through Washington, D.C., attacking Black residents while police failed to provide equal protection. Veterans and neighborhood defenders refused to submit quietly. Blood in the Capital reconstructs the rumors, newspaper incitement, political hesitation, and organized street violence that brought the Red Summer to the seat of American power. It follows residents crossing dangerous streetcar routes, families sheltering behind darkened windows, hospital workers treating the injured, and Black veterans organizing a defense as federal and municipal officials struggled to regain control. Against the familiar explanation of a spontaneous race riot, Nicolas De Lacroix reveals a battle over citizenship, authority, and the right to survive in public space. The result is a tense work of narrative nonfiction that shows how quickly national ideals collapsed when Black Washington demanded that democracy apply at home.…